Brewer and LaPetrie discuss youth officer coordination with DOE

Thank you.

Also on the youth officers, it's more for me coordination because the young people leave the high school.

Unfortunately, there's a lot of morning smoking, lunch smoking, after school smoking, et cetera, in the neighborhood.

And the youth officers get stuck with this responsibility, although I think it's more the Department of Education that should be out there talking to the young people.

So I've actually tried to get some officers, some people from DOB to go out, et cetera.

So my question to you is, because people in the neighborhood complain, understandably, on their stoop, in their community gardens, and so on.

So I guess my question is, what is the coordination between, even though we work at it at the precinct level, I think DOB should be doing more.

So I'm just wondering at what point do you say to DOE enough?

I mean, this is more of a policy issue than a numbers issue, but it is creating a lot of havoc unnecessarily.

I'm just wondering what you think should be the policy there.

You have a thought on this?

So I'll just give you general terms again.

I appreciate it.

It's pretty constant.

So we had revamped our juvenile crime strategies desk to take that, what you're talking about, and make it front and center.

And we just had a meeting chaired by the director that oversees the juvenile crime strategies desk, who is an ex-prosecutor.

With

All the stakeholders when it comes to juvenile crime, DOE, ACS.

Obviously, the prosecutors, not only on the family court side, court counsel side, but on the DA's side, on the youth part side.

Juvenile probation.

It was an outstanding meeting.

It was an all-day meeting.

I actually went and spoke.

So we are really, really trying to...

Focus on the two sides, the at-risk side, that is not what we're looking to do as far as arrests.

We're looking to visit that family, we call them youths at risk.

And then unfortunately on the other side, when it comes to violent crime, there has to be consequences.

There has to be consequences.

I just thought we kept up to date for how we can work on it together because it's constant.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Ressler, followed by Banks.